Adam Cohen was drawn to the arts at just 12 years of age when he took his first art class.

Signs of Feeling

More Works By Adam Cohen Acrylic on Canvas 2024
36 × 48 in 91.44 × 121.92 cm
$10,000 USD
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About Signs of Feeling

Adam Cohen was drawn to the arts at just 12 years of age when he took his first art class. The American artist began painting abstracts at age 50 having spent years as a very successful commercial artist. Cohen is known for his grand gestural style—a hallmark of abstract expressionism. He has an intuitive sense of colour evident in this piece rendered in a melange of red, orange, yellow, pink, blue, turquoise, green, slate gray, and black against a white backdrop. Cohen’s distinctive expressive style is created using layers of thick paint that he cuts into with a palette knife when it is wet.

“Painting is always challenging. With each new piece, you’re up against an empty canvas. You must jump in and try to be as uninhibited as possible. No holding back. Picasso said it took him a lifetime to learn to create as free as a child again.” Adam Cohen

“His fields of colour and texture have the breadth and openness of the openness of the sky or aerial views from the earth’s surface.” Carter Ratcliff, Art Critic

Adam Cohen studied at Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art and lived and painted in Rome for a year. After many years as an illustrator in NYC, he returned to his first love--painting. Adam Cohen lives and paints in New York state. Cohen has exhibited extensively in the US, Europe, Asia and most recently in Amsterdam, Venice and Long Island, New York.
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